Beijing News Shell Financial News (reporter promised) On December 27, at Baidu Create 2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference), Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li said that in the first half of 2022, Jidu will announce the first concept car, and mass production and delivery of the first automotive robot in 2023, full of confidence in the future of Jidu. According to reports, the automotive robot developed by Jidu will have L4 level automatic driving capabilities, running through the three major product concepts of "free movement", "natural communication" and "self-growth". Robin Li said that revolutionary car robots with emotion and intelligence will bring about a long-term change in the way travel is done.
Photo: Robin Li", "Digital Man" at the conference (courtesy of the company)
At the conference, Robin Li also judged that intelligent transportation will have a transformative impact on the next 10-40 years, which can make China's first-tier cities no longer have limited purchases and restrictions within 5 years, and basically solve the congestion problem within 10 years. Robin Li pointed out that intelligent transportation can solve three major problems: First, reduce road safety accidents by 90%. Second, the system solves the congestion problem. Third, autonomous driving and intelligent transportation can help reduce carbon emissions.
Robin Li also mentioned that Baidu's "Radish Run" released in August has provided 115,000 services in the past quarter, becoming the world's largest provider of self-driving travel services. At the same time, Robin Li announced the "next stop" of the radish run: it hopes to expand the service to 65 cities in 2025 and 100 cities by 2030.
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